The Why Files

tv show

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32 total episodes

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6 seasons

First Aired May 10, 2020

Overview

A weekly YouTube video podcast that explores the strange and weird of this world and beyond.

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The Max Headroom Incident

Season 2 - Episode 14 - 0h 16m

Air Date

April 19, 2021

Overview

November 22nd, 1987 was a pretty normal evening for television viewers in Chicago. That night, like every night, Dan Roan was covering sports on WGN-TV, Channel 9. Then suddenly, the signal was disrupted and screens across the city cut to black. Engineers at WGN-TV thought their transmitters were failing. They weren't. A few seconds later, something crazy happened. WGN's broadcast signal had been hijacked in what is now known as "The Max Headroom Incident"